I have known about the LD phenomena for about a year now, and I have experienced a total of 5 lucid dreams with little effort. It started with a google search about a year ago that led here and to the faqs. I practiced with a small amount of conviction, doing RC's often during the day and thinking about lucidity as I drifted to sleep, but I did not keep a journal.

Then school started (college) and my practice slowly stopped and I concentrated more on school than LDing. Now that school is out I have in the last two weeks been keeping a well documented journal and been practicing RC's whenever the idea comes to mind.

My problem is that I have been unable to experience a true LD in these two weeks and I was somewhat of a natural prior to any real concentration on the subject. The only thing I have improved is my dream recall, I recall extremely vivid and complete dreams now, but my nearest LD was a FA, and I couldn't get up i just moved my arms and eventually woke myself. I have tried incubation, WBTB and waking without opening my eyes and attempting to "Fall" back into a dream with consciousness. When I attempt this I do not fall asleep at all, and eventually I have to attempt to incubate and allow myself to fall asleep naturally.

Anyways, sorry for the long winded rant, I guess what I am after is a little bit of advice for my situation and encouragement. I am also very susceptible to subconscious suggestions as to procedures that might help me out. Let me know if you have experienced a similar situation and how you overcame it. I am very enthusiastic, and I know i will have an LD soon, I just need some friendly advice that might cause a suggestion to be made in my subconscious to help out. Thank you in advance!